XaraLX Removed From Extras - Dennis Gilmore

[bob]

Effective immediately XaraLX has been removed from Fedora Extras for all
releases. We have taken this drastic step as we have been made aware that
it is in violation of Fedora Policies. While the application has been
released as GPL, it contains a Static Library that is still proprietary and
available in binary form only.

There is a note in the source tarball stating that at some future time the
library will also be released under the GPL. When that happens we will
welcome XaraLX back as a package.

Dennis Gilmore on behalf of FESCo

[sailor]

hmmm, I didn't even know it was in extras...I always just download the package on their website.

[bob]

Well, now you've done it! Another Violation of Fedora Policies! :D So, perhaps not a trajedy for those who use it as alternative methods sure exist. However, it's nice to know when things disappear and why... unlike what happened to my beloved PyTraffic... :confused:

[sej7278]

hmmm, I didn't even know it was in extras...I always just download the package on their website.

same here!

for such an exciting program, they didn't hype it much.

maybe it will make it back in for fc7 when core and extras merge - or maybe we'll get something like ubuntu's new non-free repository.....?

[penguinmeow]

fc7

Supposedly FC6 will go right to F7. No more Fedora Core / Extras thing.

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7

[Finalzone]

maybe it will make it back in for fc7 when core and extras merge - or maybe we'll get something like ubuntu's new non-free repository.....?

Not a chance because Fedora is all about FOSS.